Perficient was recently recognized as a Computerworld Honors Laureate recipient for work done with the Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Tx. Texas Children’s, an internationally recognized pediatric hospital, is utilizing business intelligence technology to understand outcomes. At Texas Children’s, the heart center team were creating over 450 spreadsheets in order to assist in the management of patient care, research and education. This was the result of clinicians using several different approaches to data management and various reporting techniques. This difficult reporting method resulting in lower productivity, poor quality data, increased costs, and team time constraints. The solution for this complicated situation was to implement a business intelligence program which enabled them to quickly process data from multiple sources and provide a single source for data.

As a result of this successful business intelligence work done with Texas Children’s Hospital, Perficient received a Computerworld Honors Laureate in the Health category. The Computerworld Honors Program recognize innovative information technology that not only solves business problems, but also has a positive impact on society. Its goal is to bring together organizations and individuals whose pioneering uses of technology improve the quality of life and promote positive social and global change. More information on the Computerworld Honors Program can be found at: http://events.computerworld.com/ehome/index.php?eventid=31934&

You can read more about the work done with Texas Children’s, and other cases, in the Texas Children’s Hospital Outcomes book published with the Congenital Heart Surgery (CHS) data collected for 2010 at: http://www.texaschildrens.org/CareCenters/Heart/booklet/outcomes.aspx